the ultimate good. According to two hedonistic utilitarian philosophers‚ Bentham and Mill‚ happiness is the surplus over pain and everything we do is motivated by a desire to maximise pleasure and minimise pain. Preference utilitarianism‚ on the other hand‚ is the view that what is good for a person and what is good overall is determined entirely by people’s preferences. In what follows‚ I will argue that Preference utilitarianism is not more plausible than Hedonistic utilitarianism. Hare‚ a preference
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the best teachers. 24. Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. 25. Universities should give the same amount of money to their students’ sports activities as they give to their universities libraries. 26. Progress is always good. 27. With the help of technology‚ students nowadays can learn more information
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A Few Bad Apples The United States of America has become a powerful country that honors freedom and courage. Our country has overcome racial discrimination‚ the freedom to vote despite gender‚ to speak freely‚ endured wars‚ economic strikes‚ technological advances and stockmarket plummits. However‚ America cannot be perfect‚ nor can any country be. It is up to the citizens of America to set a good example and push our country as close to perfect as we can. We can start by acknowledging our nation’s
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William Wordsworth’s‚ The World Is Too Much With Us is a poetic contribution to Romanticism’s rebellion against the harsh realities of society during the nineteenth century. He is particularly concerned with the effect that the Industrial Revolution has had on people. He feels that man has lost an appreciation for the beauty of nature and now sees it as something that can be conquered for the sake of profit. He says that our preoccupation with "getting and spending" and material desires blinds us
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realize that some surgeons were killing their own patients in order to harvest their organs. Considering that organ donation is a current ethical issue‚ it can be discussed between Deontology and Utilitarianism. In Utilitarianism‚ people believe in using people for a means to an end‚ which brings about a greater good for the greater amount of people (Shafer-Landau‚ pg.122). Killing someone who is brain dead‚ can save multiple lives who actually could have a quality of life. However‚ Deontology disagrees
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"Four legs good‚ two legs bad" This shows that they have even been able to ingrain their complex ideas into the dumbest of all animals‚ which would represent the lower middle class in the Soviet Union. With the concept grasped they use it to further their propaganda: It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into "Four legs good‚ two legs bad" at crucial moments in Snowball’s speeches..." (48) This ingrained concept shows
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Anthony B. Fielding Utilitarian‚ Deontological‚ and Virtue ethics The concept of utilitarianism is closely related to the philosophy of consequentialism. Basically this means that the moral and ethical value of a person’s action should be judged by the consequence of that action. Utilitarianism is believed to be the most important of the three ethical theories because it has helped shape our world’s politics‚ economics‚ and public policy. This ethical theory explains to us that we can
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Utilitarianism‚ as Greene suggests‚ is a splendid idea for metamorality. Greene summarized utilitarianism in three words: Maximize happiness impartially. These three words also identify the three key concepts that Greene considers for utilitarianism. “Maximize”‚ compared to maximizing the value of a mathematical function‚ implies that there are constraints‚ scarcity‚ limitations‚ and trade-offs. . . All things considered‚ the largest happiness we can get out of an aggregate community. “Happiness”
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Outline the important concepts of utilitarianism (21) The theory of utilitarianism determines the rightness or wrongness of an action by its consequences. This is determined by measuring the amount of pleasure or pain brought to someone caused by an action. Utilitarianism is a teleological theory of ethics‚ this means that it is concerned with the outcome and the consequences‚ meaning that an act is not right or wrong in itself but is right or wrong depending on the outcome of said action. The main
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Kantianism is a non-consequentialist theory introduced by a German Philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant. Kantianism refer to the rightness or wrongness of actions does not depend on their consequences but on whether they fulfill our duty. In this theory‚ Kant stressed on the role of moral sentiment and desire for moral commitment and motivation. Kant argued that morality and rationality coincided. To be moral is to be rational‚ to be immoral is to be irrational. Kant believed that there were some rules of
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